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Founder Weekly (Issue 458 - October 28 2020)
Founder Weekly - Issue 458
Founder Weekly
Welcome to issue 458 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
General
A first part of 3 part series on sequencing business models talks about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult.
Part:2: The Types of Marketplaces - The second part goes deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to.
Part 3 : So You Want To Be A Platform? - In this third part, we’ll talk about the different types of platforms and what needs to be true to create long-term success.
Business ventures are rarely pure leaps of faith. Instead, they are acts of creation that are based on signals from the past. These signals provide an imperfect map to what the future could look like. It is up to a founder to see them, to interpret them, and to take the next step to build a new reality.
The competition between internet communication platforms is fierce. Discord wasn’t early to voice channels or group chats. They weren’t unique for targeting their offering to gamers. Other platforms have the same features as them. Yet they are a multi-billion dollar business. How? To borrow an idea from
, they built a 10x better product AND capture more value from it.
Why we worked on a new idea for 3 years.
It's about experts leading experts.
Marketing, Sales and PR
Nerdy Nuts leveraged TikTok, Supreme-style drops, and scarcity to scale their tiny operation into a peanut butter powerhouse.
Former Gusto marketing leader Jaleh Rezaei shares a six-step framework for how marketers can "get out of the basement" and start thinking speed-first.
Does usage-based pricing make sense for your business? Here's the pros, cons and best practices of usage-based billing for SaaS.
Humor and sales... a match made in heaven. Or is it? We're about to find out.
Growing your business requires that you find ways to increase your sales revenue. That’s foundational. New sales are the lifeblood of every business. So I want to show you what we did to get a 154% increase in monthly new sales revenue by making one simple change.
Money and Finance
Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. Let's dig in.
The Six Questions to Ask Yourself
Startups of the Week
Pulley helps companies manage their cap tables. Use Pulley to issue employee & investor equity and maintain accurate ownership records as your company scales.
TuMeke offers a risk assessment platform that uses a proprietary AI model to automatically monitor and predict the likelihood that an employee will be injured. TuMeke’s joint tracking technology allows it to extract and analyze human motion through video alone, without the need of wearable technology.
EquityBee helps startup employees get the money they need to exercise their stock options before they expire by linking them to investors who provide them with the capital to do so. It helps employees unlock the value of their equity on one side - and on the other - give investors access to an asset class they could not access before, private startups.
Tips, Tools and Services
There are tournaments everywhere. Careers are often one tournament after another. Meritocracy (fair tournaments) are something society continues to strive for, but we're not there. Here are 5 steps to getting that job, raising that money, getting into that program or college, getting tenure, getting that press coverage, getting those followers, or whatever it is you are setting out to do.
It goes beyond the way we hold our phones and the colours we can see.
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